Source Code Readability Metric

Concept

We know that readability is a critical component of software quality, but the determining factors of readability are not well understood.

We can use data from human annotators obtained through SnippetSniper to extract local source code features (like line length) that are predicative of readability. Using that, we can construct an automated metric that can quickly "score" software on its readability in a way similar to Flesh-Kincaid in the natural language domain.